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Jung-Mei Wou Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Aeon Sculpture Installation in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Jung-Mei Wou for fine arts and art installation design
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Aeon Sculpture Installation by Jung-Mei Wou, designed for JMW Art Studio, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Aeon Sculpture Installation
This work is inspired by the fable at the beginning of the first chapter of Zhuangzi's philosophy, A Happy Excursion. This sculpture is a reflection of the real world in microcosm and explores the nature of time and space, reality and fantasy, instant and eternity, which appear to be opposites but are at the same time interdependent symbiotic phenomena.
About Jung-Mei Wou
An internationally renowned artist, Jung-Mei Wou specializes in sculpture, public art, photography, and installation. Since founding her studio in 2011, she has garnered widespread acclaim across the global art and design community. Inspired by the organic elegance of nature, her work is distinguished by flowing forms, poetic abstraction, and refined spatial sensibility. Her creations have received numerous prestigious accolades, including the A’ Design Award, HRD Design Award (2011), MUSE Design Award, and MUSE Photography Awards, and have been exhibited globally and included in both public and private collections.
Award Record
With this recognition, Jung-Mei Wou is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2021 - 2022 to 2022 - 2023 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award
The A' Fine-Art Design Award is an international fine-art design competition recognizing best fine-art works by leading fine-art artists and creators worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to artists, painters, sculptors and ceramicists from all countries. Entries typically include sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and mixed media works. Awarded art designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/fine-art
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/148751
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/148751
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!148751
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/326173
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.facebook.com/publicart.PrideOfTheCity/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Aeon Sculpture Installation
- Function
- Sculpture Installation
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Beige, Light Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Black and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- JMW Art Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jung-Mei Wou
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #148751
Credits
- Image Credits
- Jung-mei Wou
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This work is a reflection of time and space, reality and fantasy, instant and eternity, which appear to be opposites but are at the same time interdependent symbiotic phenomena. The form interprets the contrast between large and small with the round holes formed by the solid body. Abstract shapes, light, and shadow are refracted and intertwined with the environment, and the work leads the viewer into the illusion of personal subconsciousness when viewed at close range.
- Inspiration
- The concept of this work is inspired by the fable at the beginning of the first chapter of Zhuangzi's philosophy, "A Happy Excursion". This work seeks to explore the essence of all symbiotic phenomena that appear to be in opposition to each other and are interdependent. The abstract sculpture, light, and shadow refract and intertwine with the environment, not only projecting a seemingly real space but also creating an illusion of the personal subconscious.
- Research
- The wind load influences the shape of the sculpture and the surface optimisation method. Aerodynamic shape optimisation has helped to achieve the optimum design for a sculpture while reducing the wind load.
- Challenge
- The most challenging part of this sculpture is presenting the lightness of the sculpture with a double curved surface for the support points. In the process of experimenting with the balance of the sculpture, six models were made to test the circular hole that would affect the center of gravity of the sculpture. The size and the most suitable position were determined based on rational principles to achieve an exquisite balance of structural mechanics.
- Realization and Technology
- This work is made of forged stainless steel. The inside of the sculpture uses a grid-shaped stainless steel skeleton as the structure, and the surface is made of stainless steel thin plate split forging, knocking, and welding to make the sculpture lightweight. The supporting point of the sculpture presents the lightness of the sculpture with two curved surfaces, and the ingenious balance of structural mechanics is also presented in this work.
- Operation and Interaction
- This sculpture intends to symbolise the relationship of duality and interdependence by combining the large fish whale and fish eggs in the sea. The shape is made of round holes surrounded by solid bodies, respectively expressing large and small.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project took one year from concept model to finished work. This project was exhibited at the Taipei World Trade Center Art Fair in April 2016.
- Specifications
- Work Dimension: 1030mmx910mmx1120mm Material: Stainless Steel
- Keywords
- Sculpture, Public Art, Contemporary Art, Installation Art, Philosophy, Dualism, A Happy Excursion
